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There has been a growing buzz about a new climate change documentary Chasing Ice, which won a pile of film festival awards and is now on the Oscars short list (one of only 15 documentaries). I finally got the chance to catch it at a local theater and, although I went in with high expectations, I had them exceeded.
To be engaging, every story needs a protagonist. Most audiences would have a hard time identifying with an ice sheet or valley glacier no matter how beautiful. Instead, the documentary follows photographer James Balog on his quest to capture the response of the cryosphere to climate change, making it visually evident and compelling.
Balog became interested in photography while working on his master's degree in geomorphology—the processes that shape landscapes. That interest blossomed into a very successful career as a photographer for the likes of National Geographic. Chasing Ice is the result of the Extreme Ice Survey project Balog started in 2007. The idea was to deploy cameras to a number of glaciers and compile high-quality, time-lapse imagery over long enough time periods to clearly see the glaciers melting back.
The reality, unsurprisingly, was this was a daunting challenge that would push the physical limitations of the equipment and the resolve of Balog's team. In the end, the project has produced (and continues to produce) stunning and extraordinary visuals that drive home the reality of glacial melt trends that would otherwise be represented by data points on a graph. Balog has been sharing that work for several years, including through a 2009 TED presentation, but the medium of film brings it to life with an intensity that public talks can't match.
It should go without saying that the cinematography is gorgeous, and Chasing Ice is certainly a feast for the eyes. It's worth watching just to see these remote and unfamiliar places in all their severe, crisp beauty. But the enduring impact of the film comes from seeing the ice disintegrate and disappear before your eyes. With help from a melancholy soundtrack, those scenes really get you in the gut. If you doubt that a nature documentary devoid of any fuzzy mammals can still be a tear-jerker, you may be surprised.
There's awe, as well, and nearly unfathomable scale—like video of a slab of ice the size of lower Manhattan (and thicker than those skyscrapers are tall) breaking off Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier. I haven't met the sentence that can truly describe what that looks like.
The science is delivered in brief interludes through snippets of interviews with researchers. The explanations are brief and concise, running no risk of losing the audience's attention, yet the film still manages to avoid overgeneralizing or glossing over important caveats. Those who were turned off by the sometimes sensationalist tone of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth will find no quarrel with Chasing Ice.
Political hot buttons and polarizing figures are absent, apart from a few television clips of bloviating pundits (and Senator James Inhofe's infamous description of climate change as a hoax). Balog uses these as counterpoint to his team's tireless drive to show the reality playing out before his cameras.
The film does a terrific job all-around of reaching out to those with doubts about climate science, rather than merely preaching to the choir. Balog briefly describes his initial skepticism of climate change and how the science changed his mind. There's even an interesting interview with a spokesman for insurance giant Munich Re about rising disaster costs, which the company has concluded is at least partly due to climate change. A widely-circulated video of one audience member's remarkable change of heart after watching the film testifies to its potency as a work of science communication.
If you have any interest in the beautiful, frigid landscapes of Greenland, Alaska, and Iceland, or even if you suspect that the media has exaggerated the magnitude of the changes to the cryosphere, Chasing Ice is an experience you should take in. And then share.


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Today is my sister Malaya's birthday. She is my parents' second born, a dancer, storyteller, stage mother, earth mother – an artist in every sense of the word. It was preordained. Before she was Nana Malaya Rucker-Oparabea, the name she uses now, she was Marian, named for Marian Anderson.
I always knew my mother revered the renowned contralto. My mother admired Anderson's quiet dignity in the face of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), who refused let Anderson sing before an integrated audience in Washington's Constitution Hall. To my mother, Anderson's victorious concert on Easter Sunday 1939, before a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial was a milestone in black history.
But for my father the connection may have been more personal. Marian Anderson was his contemporary. They were both born at the end of the 19th century. I believe he was smitten.
"With scores of her elated and admiring auditors standing at the footlights literally drinking the melodious strains which flowed from the fountain of her golden voice, Marian Anderson, internationally acclaimed contralto, sang a farewell number on Sunday evening last, he wrote in a review that appeared on the front page of the New York Age on May 14, 1938. "This was Miss Anderson's final appearance in America this season and was given at the Carnegie Hall."
After that concert, my father wrote, well wishers "of both races then repaired to her dressing room to shake hands with her and tender their congratulations. She was presented with a beautiful bouquet of tea roses." I suppose he witnessed this firsthand. (Did he offer the roses?)
In a Nov. 13, 1943 review of a Pittsburgh concert, also written for the New York Age, Ebenezer called Anderson the "world's greatest contralto."
"Miss Anderson was in excellent voice and charmingly gowned," he wrote. His only complaint was that the "motley" Pittsburgh audience was too subdued. Yes, there were plenty of compliments from the audience as they left Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque, where the performance was held.
"To this erstwhile New Yorker, however, two things were missing from this recital. There were no shouts of 'Bravo' from the 'peanut gallery,' which was only two tiers up, and there were no American Beauty roses, nor orchids. In brief, Miss Anderson received no flowers. But this is Pittsburgh!"
Ebenezer would come to love, or at least accept, Pittsburgh. He would fall in love with my mother and out of that love would come three daughters, the second of whom was born on this date.
Malaya is very different from her namesake. She leans more toward classical African and Caribbean beats than Scarlatti or Schubert. Of course, these two women came of age in different times. I can only imagine what Malaya would have told the DAR. She might have even taken over the stage.
I've often wondered why the only one of the three of us who was named after a historical figure would change her name. The answer is simple. Malaya always has been, and will forever be, her own person.
Happy Birthday, Malaya!

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Green energy advocates hopeful for policy fix
A state policy meant to spur green energy investment in Illinois is now working against that goal, and two legislative measures aimed at fixing the problem have shown little life in the General Assembly.
In 2007, lawmakers passed the Renewable Portfolio Standard, under which the state vowed that by 2025, a quarter of the energy consumed here would come from renewable sources.
"It (the RPS) was really successful until about 2013," said Lisa Medearis, clean energy advocate at the Illinois Sierra Club.
During those years, she said, the state helped utilities finance the development of renewable energy sources. According to Sierra Club data, the program helped create 20,000 clean energy jobs in the state, saved consumers $177 million in electricity costs and eliminated 5 million tons of air pollution.
Then, clean energy investment began to dwindle, but it wasn't for familiar reasons in a state with serious financial troubles. The rise of municipal aggregation, where local governments negotiate energy rates on the behalf of citizens, was the culprit.
"Municipal aggregation took off like hot cakes, but it doesn't work with RPS," said Sarah Wochos, research director at the Environmental Law & Policy Institute.
"When we wrote RPS in 2007, we didn't have aggregation. Customers got their power from Com-Ed or Ameren. But when aggregation came along, they'd get (power) from somewhere else," Wochos said.
Unused $53 million
According to state Sen. Mike Frerichs, because the 650 Illinois communities that allow municipal aggregation were free to negotiate energy contracts with anyone they wanted, they often chose out-of-state providers. He said buying electricity in Illinois is complicated because prices in the state's unregulated energy market are too volatile compared to those in regulated markets in other states.
This policy gap, Medearis said, caused green energy investment in Illinois to plummet. Currently, $53 million of funds available for financing isn't being used.
Frerichs, a Champaign Democrat also running for state treasurer, filed Senate Bill 103 early last year aimed at fixing language within RPS to allow those idle dollars to help fight market volatility and encourage green energy investment within Illinois' borders.
Rep. Frank Mautino, D-Spring Valley, is sponsoring an identical House Bill 2864.
Frerichs said traditional energy companies oppose the fix because it could cause more customers to jump ship, threatening already-declining profits. That translates to legislative opposition from lawmakers with traditional energy facilities in their districts because those facilities provide critical jobs and property tax revenue.
But fixing RPS and unblocking those hamstrung funds is critical, Medearis said, because Illinois' renewable energy potential is too good to waste.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory data show Illinois' solar intensity — the amount of sunlight able to be harnessed by solar panels — is greater than the top two solar markets in the world, Germany and Japan.
"Illinois has great solar potential. It's sunnier here than in Germany and Japan, but they're really beating us," Medearis said.
Frerichs said that Germany has long been a progressive force in clean energy and for decades has systematically taken their nuclear power plants offline, replacing them with renewable energy sources.
He said the Japanese also have been weary of nuclear power since the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant. Since then, they've also begun replacing nuclear power plants with renewable energy.
No new wind farms
More synonymous with Illinois than solar power is wind power, and while wind farms here aren't as productive as ones in the Plains states, central Illinois boasts a formidable wind corridor of its own, according to the NREL.
But the RPS shortfalls hit that industry particularly hard. In all of 2013, no new wind farms went up in the state.
"They've (Germany and Japan) made policy decisions to support renewable power generation. Illinois has made that decision too, but we're struggling to implement it," Wochos said.
"I think to augment our natural resource, we have to have state policy that helps people who want to invest in this," she said. "RPS is what we ginned up in 2007 to create that pathway."
Wochos said legislation clearing that pathway to get RPS to work as intended would mean Illinois would be able to generate an "incrementally larger amount of power from renewable sources."
And more green energy means not only less pollution and lower energy costs, but growth in Illinois' clean jobs market. According to the Clean Jobs Illinois report released last week by the Clean Energy Trust, the green energy job market is expected to grow by more than 9 percent in 2014 even with no policy changes.
"The important piece of the puzzle is making sure our policies are right," Medearis said. "Just think how much more growth there could be in this sector if we had the policies right in Springfield."
Frerichs' and Mautino's bills are still in the early stages in the General Assembly, but Frerichs said he's optimistic they'll pass before the legislative session adjourns May 31.
"People are generally very supportive. Most people agree this is something good to do," he said.
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One of the wonderful things about technology is that it causes us to ask questions that we had never previously thought of. The print vs. e-book question had never once been asked prior to the 2000s. But it's a question that every bibliophile has struggled with at some point in recent years. I know I have. Before I discuss which side of the stick I happen to fall on, let's delve into the battle a little bit first.
The printing of books hasn't changed all that much since the advent of the printing press. The process has become easier and cheaper as technology advanced. No matter the price a particular publisher sets for the print edition of a book, the actual cost to print is essentially the same for all publishers. It isn't as though one publisher has the printing technology of 2005 and another of 1900. Printing is printing and although the price of books is constantly changing, printing is still printing. For instance, I know exactly how much it costs to print my book.
Also, a print book is a physical object. You can hold it and dog ear your pages and highlight and then put it right back on your shelf to read again in the future once you're finished reading. That means something to many readers.
In just a few short years print books, and thus publishers, have taken a hit from the e-book market. There of course was a time very recently in which all books were printed. Now only about 70% of book sales fall into this category. Think of owning your own business and losing nearly a third of your business before you even have time to react to what's happening. This is exactly what happened in the last decade to the publishing industry. If you keep up with publishing like I do then you know that for the longest time there were the Big 6 publishers that maintained a stranglehold on the book world. Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Random House. Well, as you likely already know, in 2013 Penguin and Random House completed a merger that combined two of the world's largest publishers. This was done out of necessity, for both publishers, due in part to Amazon's major role in the the book market.
But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves because I haven't read anything recently about any more major mergers happening soon.
The little guy who has turned the publishing world on its head. The advantages of e-books are numerous and can't be denied. A digital version of a book is cheaper than a printed version. There's no paper or ink or printing or anything but a file to be downloaded. A single e-reader or tablet can hold thousands of books without ever needing to give any away to make more room on the shelf. Reading on a device is often more suitable to the eyes than reading straight from paper. (Just think of reading something on your phone in your room at midnight versus reading off of paper) Lastly, everything you can think to do in a printed book like take notes or highlight or save your page can now be done on just about every e-reader or tablet that allows you to read e-books. Let's face it, a huge percentage of the American population has access to a device on which e-books can be read. I mean, who doesn't have a PC, Mac, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Nook, Kobo, Galaxy Note, or Galaxy S? We all do, which means we all have access to the cheaper version of the exact same books available at your local bookstore or online.
Where do I Fall?
After examining printed books versus e-books the conclusion may be clear to some, if not most people. And it is for me. I'm willing to pay whatever the difference is between the digital and printed formats. Why? Because a printed book is a physical object that I can forever admire on my shelf. I can't admire a file on a smartphone or tablet. I personally have more than 160 printed books and less than 20 on my Kindle. NOTE: I did not buy my Kindle, it was given to me as a gift.
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The Wednesday Playlist: Judgment Day for a Revamped Idol
Here we go again. Ryan Seacrest hyping "the journey that defines a nation," Randy Jackson settling in as the "resident dawg" as if nothing had ever changed. But change is the new constant in the overly cluttered world of TV singing competitions, and as the first and most successful of the genre, Fox's American Idol, returns for its 12th season with back-to-back nights of two-hour audition episodes Wednesday and Thursday (8/7c), a mostly new panel of celebrity judges settles in for their first public judgment.
Initial impressions from a 45-minute clip reel of early highlights: colorful Nicki Minaj steals the show with her bright wigs and spitfire personality, flirtatious and playful, while the more aloof Mariah Carey sighs at her fellow diva's antics as if she's a pesky gnat, only perking up when a veteran participant of "Camp Mariah" comes bearing pictures, appealing to her ego. Country music's likeably unassuming Keith Urban can't help but be overshadowed in this company as he sits between the bickering ladies, and while he quips after one bout, "I feel like a scratching post," allegations of an actual claws-out feud seem, for now, overstated.
The freak-show aspect that used to typify early Idol audition rounds appears to be once again dialed back, though a few delusional sorts still manage to squeeze through (and from the evidence of these clips, they're let down easy, and many get a hug from Nicki). The emphasis is on strenuous and often effective heart-tugging, most memorably in the case of a Cuban-born 21-year-old with a debilitating stutter that magically vanishes when he sings.
Having the stage to itself for a few months - NBC's The Voice isn't back until late March - may help American Idol temporarily overcome the singing-show fatigue we've been experiencing lately. (If only Simon Cowell would get over his ego, concede what a dismal failure The X Factor is in this country, and return to the show that deservedly made him famous and Fox a fortune.) Still, when the 45 minutes Fox made available were up, I wanted to see more, and that's a good sign.
Some other Wednesday highlights made available for review:
We're used to Tessa being the voice of wry reason on ABC's wildly stylized Suburgatory (9:30/8:30c), so it's fun watching Jane Levy go berserk for a change, when Tessa's adverse reaction to pain meds after wisdom-teeth surgery sends her into fits of paranoid hysteria.
Such displays are nothing new for FX's gaudy, bloody American Horror Story: Asylum (10/9c), which takes some major narrative leaps in continuing the stories of Kit and Lana outside the walls of Briarcliff, and poor Sister Jude still trapped within. Her new nemesis, played by a familiar face to regular Horror Story viewers, is the sort who revels in women-behind-bars shtick, with ripe dialogue (from Ryan Murphy) like, "Babycakes, I'm only just starting to toy with you." Only one more week and we'll all be set free from this madness.
As a companion piece to Syfy's Ghost Hunters, starting its ninth season (9/8c), the channel exploits the current cable craze for excavating gold by sending paranormal investigators to a long-abandoned, but about to be reopened, Ghost Mine (10/9c) in Oregon. I wish I could report they unearth a mother lode of spooky discoveries, but the tepid first hour feels an awful lot like they're trawling, slowly, for fool's gold.
The League's Nick Kroll plays comic chameleon in his new Comedy Central sketch-fest Kroll Show (10:30/9:30c), and while his posse of famous friends is impressive - Ed Helms and Adam Pally are among the guys male-bonding in a running gag titled "Sex in the City for Dudes," ex-Saturday Night Live star Jenny Slate co-stars with Kroll (in drag) as incompetent publicists both named Liz in a tired celeb-reality parody - you can't help get the sense they're having more fun than we are.
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Among various side dishes he was preparing for Shabbat, as he was helping his wife, was one I always wanted to taste. Easy to make, superbly delicious, it was a dish of Roasted Peppers.
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You'll find these are delicately flavored, they can be enjoyed by themselves – as I did – or as a side dish.
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Apple may be planning a major redesign for the next-generation iPhone after all, contrary to most previous rumors and expectations. Boy Genius Report claims to have "independently confirmed" that the updated iPhone, which may either be the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, will not just be a maintenance release with marginal speed bumps. Instead, it will allegedly sport a "radical new case design," and Apple is considering holding a special event in August to announce the device.
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fulfill users' wildest dreams and fantasies be very different than the iPhone 4. This follows previous rumors from last week that stated the next-gen iPhone was already in final testing and that final prototypes are currently out in the field before production this fall.
As for timing, the rumors have been converging on a fall release, which BGR's source seems to agree with. Apple typically holds a media event in September in order to introduce updates to iTunes and its various iPod lines, so many observers have expected Apple to roll in the iPhone update with those announcements. Apparently, a beginning-to-mid-August event may happen as well, according to the source, with availability following in the last week of that month. It's also worth noting that Digitimes claims that Apple has reduced its iPhone 4 orders in anticipation of a new device in the third quarter of the year.
Color us skeptical on the August claims—it takes a lot for Apple to break out of its own predefined patterns—but the company has already broken its pattern of a summer iPhone release, so anything is possible at this point.


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Parents who regularly hand their iDevices over to their children, take note: you can still be burned by kids making in-app purchases. The BBC published a story on Friday highlighting a five-year-old's impressive feat in running up a £1,700 iTunes bill—about $2,500—after his father entered a passcode to allow him to download a "free" game from the App Store. The details of the situation reveal a series of unfortunate events that led to the truly epic tab, though Apple has since refunded the money.
There are a few things the Kitchens could have done better when their son, Danny, began using an iPad to play games. The article doesn't specify whether Danny's father entered a passcode for the device, for the App Store, or within the app itself, but the last scenario listed seems most likely. Entering a password to download apps in the App Store used to mean the user could begin charging in-app purchases without re-entering that password for 15 minutes as the default iOS behavior.
Apple made that more difficult with iOS 4.3 in early 2011 by requiring the App Store password a second time when in-app purchases are made. Assuming the family's iPad was running a more recent version of iOS, it sounds like Danny's father entered his password when Danny began to make purchases, not realizing what he was authorizing.
Danny apparently began buying stuff right away, and the Kitchens were even notified by e-mail of charges being made to their account: "The next day the Kitchens received e-mails which itemized successive £69.99 purchases, but they were believed to be sent in error and dismissed," wrote the BBC. The total charges of £1,700 were only brought to the family's attention thanks to a call from the credit card company.
The Federal Trade Commission said in 2011 that it would look into Apple's marketing of in-app purchases to children. Apple recently settled a class-action lawsuit over kids running up in-app purchase tabs, an issue that caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission.
Apple also provides a way to prevent in-app purchases altogether in its parental controls (found within Settings > General > Restrictions), though many parents are still unaware of these controls or how to use them:
The parental controls also allow users to set a time limit for how long you can make purchases until having to enter the password again: the default is 15 minutes, but you can also set it to "immediately" if you want iOS to ask you every time. Setting up such controls—and understanding what your child is asking for when he or she wants a password entered—can help cut down on these incidents. After all, you can't always count on Apple to issue a refund, especially if you're the one who's entering the password.


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"The issue that no one seems know the answer to is how to channel even a small fraction of the billions of dollars that flow to local non-news digital into news.
I have spent a lot of time trying to understand why ads worked in newspapers before. I mean, of course, people read the paper to get the news not to find out about wedding dresses at Macy's. But the surprising thing is that a lot of people get the newspaper not to read the news but to find information about just that same wedding dress in a marketplace the newspapers have created that gets delivered with the paper. In other words, over the last 50 years, newspapers created a market place for local shopping that they owned.
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Days Til Spring: 30
It started with an innocent conversation between me and my wife (The Most Wonderful Girl In The Universe).
Me: Hey honey, want to go to Canada in February?
TMWGITU: *thinks* Who's playing?
(She knows me so well! And we've had this conversation before. A lot.)
Me: John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett. Acoustic! On stage at the same time!
TMWGITU: *sighing* Ok.
So my wife (who rarely thinks just a concert is reason enough for crossing an international border) planned a long weekend for us in Canada – two days in Montreal, two in Ottawa. Fortunately, when it was time for the trip, NYC was on the verge of a heat wave – 40 Fahrenheit! – so, in fine stupid fashion, off we went to Canada!
Montreal in winter was stunning! After checking into our room, we walked over to Old Montreal to get our very first (so we thought) Poutine.
Poutine is a local delicacy of french fries smothered in gravy and cheese curd. One of the options at the place we went was to get it with smoked meat.
We were in time for their Fête des Neiges, an annual celebration of snow, held on a small island in the Saint Lawrence river. We took the subway to get there, and I added yet another rail pass to the collection (which sadly consists of only New York, London and Montreal).
The festival was a massive party – Ferris wheel, zip line from the museum, live child foozball.
Yes, you read that right.
After that (and a great night's sleep), we headed out the next morning to the top of Montreal to get bagels.
Back near the beginning of the twentieth century, Old World Jews migrated to Canada. Among the traditions, rituals and foods they brought with them were bagels.
I'm from NYC, born and bred. So after my wife told me how famous Montreal bagels were, and people around the hotel raved about them, I had to check them out. The big difference between Montreal bagels and real bagels (yeah, I said it) is that Montreal bagels are boiled in water with honey added. If I hadn't known it was honey, I wouldn't quite have been able to identify what was wrong with them. Lucky me.
To be fair, we did go to the two oldest, most famous bakeries to try the bagels.
I'll stick with an NYC. Preferably with a schmear.
Part two will cover Ottawa, because otherwise, this post would be very long.
So until then, enjoy this view of a ferris wheel rising from the snow.
And some random guys playing hockey on a rink in the projects. Because Canada.


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If you've ever lost a pet, you know about the importance of ID tags. Having identification and contact information securely attached to your pet's neck makes it much more likely that you'll get your furry family member back if he decides to take off on a solo adventure.
Yet a recent study published in Preventative Veterinary Medicine revealed that only 33 percent of owners keep ID tags on their pets.
If you're one of the 67 percent who sometimes, rarely or never puts tags on your pet, consider this: They considerably increase the return-to-owner (RTO) rate if your pet is lost.
"In most communities, the RTO rate hovers between 10 and 30 percent for dogs," says Dr. Emily Weiss, vice president of shelter research and development for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "But personalized ID tags that contain contact information for the dog owner can help assure lost animals are quickly reunited with their families."
It's also important to remember that just because your dog is microchipped, it doesn't mean that he doesn't also need an ID tag. "Vets and shelters can scan for chips, but collar tags are still the fastest way for someone to reach you in the event that they find your lost pet," says Dr. Jules Benson, BVSc MRCVS, vice president of veterinary services at Petplan Pet Insurance.
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An iOS application developer has come up with an extreme way of fighting software piracy—by auto-posting "confessions" to its users' Twitter accounts.
If you search Twitter for the hashtag #softwarepirateconfession you'll find a stream of tweets stating, "How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will. #softwarepirateconfession." There are many dozens of these tweets in the past day alone, all identical. So what's happening? It turns out that Enfour, the maker of a variety of dictionary apps, is auto-posting tweets to users' accounts to shame them for being pirates. But the auto-tweeting seems to be affecting a huge portion of its paid user base, not just those who actually stole the apps.
An apology in Japanese was posted on the Japan-based Enfour's site, listing affected products including more than a dozen English dictionary and thesaurus apps, such as American Heritage, Collins, and Australian Oxford dictionaries. There are another half-dozen or so Japanese language apps affected as well.
Enfour VP of Communications Tracey Northcott also apologized on Twitter. Northcott wrote on November 1 that "The anti-piracy module kicked in today for legitimate users," and she called the problem a "bug" and a "glitch in the anti-piracy measures." She wrote, also on November 1, that an updated version of the apps rushed onto the App Store had fixed the auto-tweet problem. (Whether the "fix" eliminates the auto-tweets entirely or makes it so they only affect people who actually stole the app, she did not say.) She's still doing damage control this week, advising people on Twitter to update to the latest version.
Why did Enfour do it? "Only 25% of our apps in use are legitimate copies. Piracy is threatening the survival of all independent devs," she wrote.
I tested one of the apps and found no problems. However, people are still complaining, and the timing of the complaints suggest either that they are using older versions of the apps or that the promised fix hasn't been fully successful.
You calling me a pirate?
The problem gained wider attention in the past couple of days because of a blog post written by Andreas Ødegård, a user of the "Oxford Deluxe" dictionary app and editor at the tech site Pocketables. He writes in a post on November 10:
I sat down to grade papers for an English class, and loaded up the dictionary app I've been using for ages to check a word. I got asked for access to my Twitter account, declined, and was thrown out of the app. Again and again. OK, I thought, apparently some update means the app now requires access—nothing new, apps need location access to access photos, and I don't plan on sharing any words on Twitter anyways, so why not. I checked my word, went back to grading.
A few minutes later, I get a Twitter notification email about someone replying to my tweet. What tweet? This one:
How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will. #Softwarepirateconfession
Ødegård writes that he paid $55 for the app in August 2010, and posted a screenshot of the receipt to prove it. But his iOS device is jailbroken and has Installous, an "app store" that rips off apps from the real Apple App Store and makes them available for free. Ødegård continues:
I have Installous, a jailbreak app for installing pirated apps, installed, but have only ever used it once: When Scanner Pro, which I also legally own, introduced a bug in the app that made the app stop working completely on my device. Installous lets you browse a list of available pirated versions of the app, which also means you can use it to go back to an older version of an app you legally own. This is otherwise impossible in iOS, unlike on Android. Don't know if there's a relation there, but I assume so. If I were to guess, I assume the developer got tired of having the $50 app stolen, included a check for Installous, and simply forgot to actually add a method to see if the users had used it for the app in question. Whoops?
While Ødegård suggests the problem is limited to owners of jailbroken iOS devices, others say that's not the case. One commenter on the Pocketables blog post writes that "this has nothing to do with having a jailbroken iPad or iPhone. It is happening to everyone." A commenter on Hacker News reported using Enfour's Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English on a device that is not jailbroken, saying, "The latest version displays 'I'm a software thief' as a notification, says to run the app in safe mode and then crashes."
We've contacted Enfour for further comment but have not heard back yet. As noted, complaints have continued to come in after the application update that was supposed to fix the problem. Enfour's American Heritage Dictionary—4th Edition app was updated last on November 1, but several customer reviews of the current version detail the same complaint about the pirate tweets. On November 2, user Sean O'Brien wrote:
Apparently, even though I paid nearly $25.00 for it, something in the code of this app identified me a owning a pirated copy. It then asked for access to my Twitter account through my iPhone. I gave it access because, it's the American Heritage Dictionary! If any app can be trusted with my Twitter account, it ought to be my expensive dictionary app. But no, it tweeted the following message:
"How about we all stop using pirated iOS apps? I promise to stop. I really will. #softwarepirateconfession"
The App Store on iOS devices can display reviews from either the current version or all versions. Three more users writing on November 3 and November 4 weighed in with similar complaints about the American Heritage app's current version. That Longman app we mentioned above has similar complaints about the current version.
We weren't able to replicate the problem ourselves in the Ars Orbiting HQ. I have a couple of jailbroken iOS devices, so I tried recreating the problem by purchasing the American Heritage Dictionary—4th Edition. The app hasn't asked me to authorize Twitter on either device, and my Twitter account has not been hijacked.
While that suggests Enfour's fix has been at least partially successful, there are enough complaints still floating around to make us wonder if the problem is completely gone. The "confessions" are still rolling in on Twitter.
Enfour's problem exists between keyboard and chair
Enfour can call it a "bug" if it wants, but the bug wasn't just in the implementation—it was in the idea itself. Surely, there are better ways to fight piracy than forcing users to post involuntary "confessions" to their Twitter feeds. But since Enfour was insistent on shaming pirates, they should have tested the system a lot more thoroughly before rolling it out. If you're going to auto-tweet a confession to a user's Twitter account, make sure the confession itself isn't false.


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ATLANTA, Ga. — Statistics do not tell a whole story, but they do underscore the national "epidemic" that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared in regards to opiate prescription drug addiction.
More than 125,000 Americans have died from opiate painkiller overdoses in the last 10 years, according to figures provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the National Rx Drug Abuse Summit.
"This is an issue that doesn't know urban boundaries or rural boundaries. It's a nationwide issue," said Regina Labelle, chief of staff of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In 1980, the United States had about three deaths related to drug overdoses per 100,000 people. That number is now 13 overdose deaths per 100,000 people, and it threatens to continue growing, officials said.
For every single opiate-related overdose death, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there are:
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— $4.35 million in related health care costs
"These are not just statistics. They are mothers, they are fathers, they are sisters, they are brothers and they are friends," said Michael P. Botticelli, the deputy director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The increasing abuse and addiction of opiates — which molecularly are almost identical to heroin — is leading to more overdoses and fatalities. Public health officials at the national summit said across the country someone dies from an opiate-related overdose every 15 minutes.
There were 38,000 overdoses-related deaths in the United States in 2010, a 500 percent increase since 1980. Drug overdoses now account for more deaths than homicides and fatal traffic accidents.
More than two million people ages 12 and older in the United States require treatment for opiate addiction. Seventy percent of people who begin misusing opiate painkillers report getting them free of charge from a relative or friend.
The opiate abuse epidemic cuts across socio-economic lines and state boundaries. Massachusetts has been particularly hard-hit. In 1999, drug-related deaths in Massachusetts were less than five in 100,000 people. Now, fatal overdoses are estimated at 10 to 15 per 100,000 people, officials said.
In 2013, Massachusetts was seventh in the nation with 30 armed robberies at pharmacies. Arizona was at the top of the list with 76 armed robberies. Massachusetts was also tenth in the nation last year with 137,000 written prescriptions for Oxycodone, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.


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Aren't words and concepts the antithesis of enlightenment? In an essay published in the March 2007 issue of Shambhala Sun, Norman wonders why he is compelled to write, and concludes that all language is a form of prayer.
Though I know writing is a bad habit for a Zen priest, I can't help it. I seem to be writing all the time. I write poems of several varieties in several voices, journal entries, dharma talks, essays, books, notes, lists, stories, e-mails, blogs. In doing all this, I have no special purpose I can discern or explain. Though I hope it does somebody some good, I am not at all sure. It may even do some harm. More likely, it may just be a waste of time. What am I doing when I write? I am not documenting my life for my friends or posterity, nor am I telling anybody something they don't already know or need to hear from me. Why go on? I am compelled to, delighted to. There seems to be something crucial about working with language, something that wakes me up or brings a quality of density or significance to my life, even though I can't say what that significance is more than that it is a feeling or a texture. Besides, writing is a deep pleasure. And besides that, I have always written, seem to be a writer by temperament and impulse, and what writers do is write; they just can't help themselves.
Maybe I should get over this. Maybe there's an adhesive patch I can put on that will block the neural pathways that lead me down to the arteries of language. But if there were, I wouldn't wear it. Whether writing is good or bad, I affirm it like an athlete affirms her sport, a mother her child, or a believer his religion. I have noticed over the years in my conversations with writers that for a writer, writing is a sort of absolute bottom line. "Are you writing?" If the answer is yes, then no matter what else is going on your life- and all of life-is basically OK . You are who you are supposed to be and your existence makes sense. If the answer is no, then you are not doing well, your relationships and basic well-being are in jeopardy, and the rest of the world is dark and problematic.
Where does this need to splash around in language come from? Is it a disease? I'm not sure, but if so I don't think (William Burroughs notwithstanding) we will find the virus. I suppose the need to write comes from the connection between human consciousness and language-making. Language-making isn't incidental or ornamental to human consciousness; it is its center, its essence. No language, no person. And no language, no concept of life, of death, of sorrow or joy. No relationships, no tools. We are what we tell ourselves we are. Meditation practice brings the mind to a profound quiet that comes very close to the bottom of consciousness, and right there is the wellspring where language bubbles up. So does meditation get us beyond language? Is it true, as the old Zen teachers seem to be saying, that language is our whole human problem, the basic mistake we make, the mechanism of our suffering? Is this why it's such a big no-no to write?
Yes. Language is our big problem. Language ruins us and makes us suffer. Language is certainly my big problem. All my dissatisfactions would instantly disappear if I couldn't identify them or talk about them. But so would I. Without language I'd have no experience, no life in the world. To say that language is the problem is to say that life is the problem: it's true, but what are you going to do about it?
Well, you live. And, if you are a writer, you write. But here's the strange part: you write for the writing, you write alone and in silence, and you don't know if it does anyone any good-yet somehow you need a reader. This shouldn't be the case, but it is. Until there is a reader, some reader, any reader, the writing is incomplete. This is not true, for instance, with meditation practice or, say, with working out. You can run or bike or sit watching the breath without anyone ever witnessing it. It makes no difference whether someone witnesses or not. Because nothing comes of your running or sitting; there's nothing to share. But when you write you produce something that can be shared and somehow must be. You can't write without being read. This doesn't have to do with ambition or desire; it is built into the nature of writing.
I have been thinking about this for a thousand years. In the 1980s I sponsored a symposium in New York called Meditation and Poetry, in which I brought together a number of serious poets who meditated. My idea was to try to discover what these two activities have in common. I remember Jackson MacLow, the great avant-garde poet, saying, "I am chary (I particularly remember his use of this word) about mentioning these two in the same breath. They exist in different worlds. Writing is effective and public; meditation is private." Something like that.
But, one could argue, MacLow's writing was utterly private. He worked with chance operations and cut-up words, so that there was no intention or conventional communication in his work. He was never trying to say or describe anything. Still, he published copiously. Why?
A decade later I was involved in a similar symposium at Stanford. On the panel with me were the poets Leslie Scalapino and Michael McClure, both of whom practice meditation. We were asked by someone in the audience, "Whom do you write for?" and we all answered, in different ways, "No one." I remember that one of the professors in attendance (who, as it happened, was a Zen scholar) took serious issue with this. Writing must always be social, he argued. What we meant was not that we were uninterested in readership-we all publish a fair amount-but that in the act of writing we did not consider who the reader is or what he or she is going to make of what we are writing. We write to someone, but that person is essentially Nobody, without a name or social circumstances-we write for God. The Beyond. The Empty Nature of All Phenomena. Buddha Nature. The Mystery. We speak, and however little or much our words communicate, they touch something Out There. And somehow within the mind and within the words, that Out There is already implied. Don't ask me to explain.
Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
And so, dear reader, know that at this moment of your reading this text in the pages of the Shambhala Sun, you are also touching the Mystery, the Nobody, at the center of your language-charged silence. I, the supposed author, about whom you may have formed some impression entirely of your own making, am not now talking to you. At the moment of your reading, amazingly enough, although I seem to be present, I am elsewhere, doing something else. I am unaware of who you are, and I don't know that you are reading these words now. And yet, at this moment, the moment when I am composing these words-a moment long past for you but immediate to me now-I am as close to myself, and to you, as it is humanly possible to be. _ If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, and being loved.


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Indian Police: Crew Member From Detained U.S. Ship Tried Suicide
A member of a U.S.-owned ship whose crew was arrested by Indian authorities earlier this month for allegedly carrying a "huge cache" of illegal arms, has tried to commit suicide in his jail cell, police say.
The chief engineer of the MV Seaman Guard Ohio, owned by the U.S.-based security firm AdvanFort, and detained along with its international crew on Oct. 12, was prevented by his cellmates from taking his own life, Indian police say, according to the BBC. The nationality of the crew member in question was not revealed, but the ship's complement includes Indians, Britons, Ukrainians and Estonians, according to AdvanFort.
As we reported last week, the MV Seaman Guard Ohio was intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard in waters off the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu. Authorities said they found weapons and ammunition aboard that had not been properly declared and accused the ship's master of illegally purchasing 400 gallons of diesel from a local agent. The ship is currently at anchor in the port of Tuticorin.
AdvanFort, which provides "comprehensive maritime security solutions to the commercial shipping industry," according to its website, has maintained that the weapons carried by the vessel were legally declared to Indian authorities and were mean to be used in anti-piracy operations.
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Thursday was throwback night at Nationals Park, as the Washington Nationals and San Francisco Giants turned back the clock to commemorate the 1924 World Series between the Senators and then-New York Giants.
The Nats left no stone unturned, from the usher and grounds crew uniforms, to the organ music, to the throwback green and white scoreboard which, other than the black and white replays, appeared to be manually operated. Even former Senators P.A. announcer Charlie Brotman returned to the microphone.
And just as the Senators came from behind to steal game 7 with a walk-off on a bad hop, the Nats engineered a commemorative bad-hop walk-off of their own to sweep the series.
The only presidents race in 1924 involved Calvin Coolidge, so when the fourth inning came around, the Nationals' presidents had to come up with a commemoration of their own.
With the scoreboard showing the live race in black & white, Abraham Lincoln emerged wrapped as a mummy in a 1924 Senators jersey, chased by Teddy Roosevelt aboard a scooter (turns out Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered in 1924, the same year the scooter was invented).
Founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who rightfully don't think 1924 qualifies for nostalgia, ignored the shenanigans and dashed for the finish line, with GW taking the tape by a nose, then doing the Charleston with NatPack member Katie Albisu.
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Yesterday, the New York Times published another one of those stories that raises a huge question, which it then fails to address. Most of the 170 deaths by flooding in the Black Sea coastal area occurred in the town of Krymsk when water ran down hills and into town in torrents. Ellen Barry reports (sort of) that:
… it came as a shock, and then as the focus of anger, when officials acknowledged that they had been aware of a threat to Krymsk at 10 the previous night, but had not taken measures to rouse its sleeping residents.
A resident asked:
"If they knew at 11, why didn't they warn us? What are we, hunks of meat? Are we not people?"
Was it the usual — fear of starting a panic, being held responsible for incurring the expense of an evacuation when it might turn out one wasn't needed? One explanation:
The Emergencies Ministry said it sent warnings out by text message, but some local residents said they never received the alerts. Ministry head Vladimir Puchkov [said] "A system to warn the residents was set up. … But, unfortunately, not everyone was warned early enough."
What makes the New York Times story even more lacking was that two days earlier, July 9, Masha Gessen reported in a blog post in the Times itself (don't you people talk to each other?) that:
… a young woman named Yulia Andropova on her page on vkontakte.ru, a Russian social network [apparently] writing from Krymsk … described how the town may have been deliberately flooded to spare the bigger city of Novorossiysk.
"Everyone is keeping quiet about this now, but last night my father was working and he says that they called an emergency meeting in the middle of the night to decide whether to open the floodgates of the Neberdzhaevskoye Reservoir," Andropova wrote .…"And what do you think? Of course they decided to open the floodgates! They sacrificed Krymsk and still didn't manage to prevent the flooding of Novorossiysk. Good job. But at least they should have warned people the water was coming!
Gessen added that:
But late Saturday night, two expert bloggers posted detailed analyses of the region's topography, both concluding that Krymsk was probably flooded after heavy rain over nearby mountains turned normally tame rivers into monstrous roaring streams.
One blogger, by the name of Eugeny Shultz, concluded that the reservoir had probably overflowed on its own. No one had opened any floodgates; in fact, there are no floodgates at this particular reservoir.
In any event, returning to Barry's story:
The flood in this city of 57,000 in southern Russia is the first disaster to hit the country since Vladimir V. Putin returned to the presidency, amid uncertain public support for his government. Its aftermath has riveted national attention as a measure of the state's effectiveness, including visits from celebrities and volunteer efforts backed by pro-government and opposition political parties.
Mr. Putin has been damaged in the past by appearing indifferent to disasters — most acutely in 2000, when he failed to immediately return from a vacation to handle the sinking of a nuclear-powered submarine, the Kursk. Russia declined initial rescue offers from other countries, and all 118 sailors trapped onboard died.
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The post was reposted hundreds, possibly thousands of times on different social networks. Prominent bloggers and journalists quoted it to show the Putin regime's utter disregard for human life — as if further proof were needed.
The question begs to be asked: will this be Vladimir Putin's Katrina?


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Twitter has ranked U.S. states from happiest to saddest, CNN reports. Researchers at the University of Vermont searched through geotagged tweets for happy words, like LOL, haha, good and nice, and sad or angry words, such as mad, hate, boo and expletives. Hawaii was found to be the happiest state, followed by Maine, Nevada, Utah and Vermont. Louisiana was the saddest, followed by Mississippi, Maryland, Michigan and Delaware. The method was also used to find the country's happiest and saddest cities (Napa, Calif., and Beaumont, Texas, respectively). This method can also be used to predict obese areas based on frequency of food words, researchers reported.
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"The installation of new advanced centrifuges would be a further escalation and a continuing violation of Iran's (U.N.) obligations. It would mark yet another provocative step." - U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, when asked about reports that Iran had installed advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant.
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Deleted Index Entries Part III (Slip Away) June 23, 2008Posted by Richard Foote in Oracle General, Oracle Indexes, Oracle Myths.
Another little post while I look after some unwell munchkins …
I've already looked at the most common example of when Oracle will automatically clean out deleted index entries, that being any subsequent insert into a leaf block will clean out the deleted entries that may exist from the associated leaf block.
Another example of Oracle automatically removing deleted index entries is that associated with a variation of delayed block cleanout. If an Oracle index block with deleted index entries is written to disk before the associated transaction performing the index delete operation is committed, the next time the index block is accessed, Oracle will not only clean out the transaction details from the index block (such as the lock byte) but the deleted index entries themselves may also be cleaned out as well.
This scenario is most likely to occur during large or long running transaction operations (such as batch operations) where many rows are likely to be accessed and/or modified and the associated modified index blocks may get aged out of the buffer cache and written to disk before the transaction ends via the COMMIT.
Note this delayed clean out does not require the index block to be accessed via a subsequent DML operation, even a simple SELECT statement will be sufficient to perform the necessary clean out of deleted index entries.
To illustrate this behaviour, basically create a table with a bunch of rows, deleted some of them but flush the buffer cache prior to issuing the commit on the delete.
SQL> CREATE TABLE del_stuff (id NUMBER, name VARCHAR2(30));
Table created.
SQL> CREATE INDEX del_stuff_i ON del_stuff(id);
Index created.
SQL> INSERT INTO del_stuff SELECT rownum, 'Bowie' FROM dual CONNECT BY level <=1000;
1000 rows created.
Commit complete.
Next, deleted say 1/2 of the rows from the table.
SQL> DELETE del_stuff WHERE mod(id,2) = 0;
500 rows deleted.
At this point, we flush the associated blocks to disk to simulate a large or long running transaction is which blocks may be aged from the buffer cache and written to disk before the COMMIT is performed.
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS 'immediate trace name flush_cache';
Session altered.
in 9i, or since 10g:
System altered.
It's only at this point after the blocks are flushed to disk that the COMMIT is performed.
Commit complete.
Once the index blocks are subsequently accessed, we notice the deleted index entries may have already been cleaned out …
NOTE: The following results do not consistently occur if the index consists of just a single block (the root block is a "special" case), but does appear to be more consistent if the index has a blevel of one or more (as in the demo) and as would be more typical with indexes involved in long running transactions.
A view of INDEX_STATS after a ANALYZE … VALIDATE STRUCTURE command will show the following:
Note: There are no deleted index entries, none. They've already been cleaned out.
A treedump will show the following:
—– begin tree dump
leaf: 0x1402e4a 20983370 (0: nrow: 500 rrow: 500)
—– end tree dump
Note: It only shows 500 rrow and 500 nrow values, clearly highlighting there are no deleted index entries.
A partial index block dump will show the following:
kdxlende 0
The deleted index entry count kdxlende is 0, with no deleted index entries existing in the block. None.
All the deleted index entries have already been cleaned out, with not a subsequent DML operation in sight.
So yes, again Oracle can clean out deleted index entries as part of it's general processing so that the need to do so manually via an index rebuild, coalesce or shrink is a somewhat rare occurrence.
But wait, there's still more cases to come when Oracle will simply automatically remove deleted index entries entries …
- 1. Asif Momen - June 23, 2008
Hi Richard,
Well, I did get DEL_LF_ROWS = 0 on the first run but since then Oracle is still reporting DEL_LF_ROWS = 4.
SQL> select * from v$version;
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 – Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 – Production
CORE 10.2.0.4.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production
SQL> conn test/test
SQL> CREATE TABLE del_stuff (id NUMBER, name VARCHAR2(30));
Table created.
SQL> CREATE INDEX del_stuff_i ON del_stuff(id);
Index created.
SQL> INSERT INTO del_stuff SELECT rownum, 'Bowie' FROM dual CONNECT BY level COMMIT;
Commit complete.
SQL> DELETE del_stuff WHERE id in (2,4,6,8);
4 rows deleted.
System altered.
Commit complete.
SQL> analyze index del_stuff_i validate structure;
Index analyzed.
SQL> select LF_ROWS, DEL_LF_ROWS, DEL_LF_ROWS_LEN from index_stats;
———- ———– —————
10 4 56
What's going wrong?
- 3. Asif Momen - June 23, 2008
Hi Richard,
No luck trying when buffer cache was flusded from another session.
Yes, blocks indeed are flushed out of buffer cache.
SQL> select rownum,
2 addr,
3 decode(state, 0,'free', 1,'xcur', 2,'scur', 3,'cr', 4,'read', 5,'mrec',
4 6,'irec', 7,'write', 8,'pi') state,
5 tch,
6 tim
7 from x$bh b
8 where obj = 64946;
———- ——– —– ———- ———-
1 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
2 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
3 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
4 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
5 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
6 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
7 0508A140 xcur 2 1214233850
8 0508A140 free 0 4294967295
8 rows selected.
I wonder how did it ran successfully on the first occassion.
Asif Momen


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Winding down the war on terror
My column today is headlined "How to end the war on terror," but that's not quite right. Barack Obama doesn't try for victory nor settle for defeat. He doesn't end wars, he winds them down. More specifically, he winds down American involvement in wars. Iraq's civil war continues without us, as will Afghanistan's when we get out of there.
Winding down the third war Obama inherited is more difficult because the war on terror is a flawed concept from the start: a borderless global battlefield, an undefined enemy, unclear objectives. Obama doesn't like the term, preferring "counter-terrorism," which is more amenable to serious thought.
But he described it as a war in his big speech last week, and laid out a way of thinking about it. The speech was short on specifics, and I have lots of questions about drones. But it articulated a policy approach to terrorism, and a world view sharply different from the Neocons who launched this war.
Obama winds down this war through steps many wars take: by shrinking the battlefield, by narrowing the definition of the enemy, by resolving the status of POWs, by restoring borders, sovereignty, and international law, and by withdrawing wartime powers given the executive branch. Each of those steps deserves serious discussion.